If you thought you saw a car driving around Redondo Beach with a giant red baseball cap on its roof after 2 a.m. Tuesday, it wasn’t your imagination.

Police are asking for the public’s help to find a 3-foot-tall, Donald Trump-inspired baseball cap and three men who were caught on surveillance video stealing it from an iconic statue outside Joe Oliveri Hair Design at 1401 Pacific Coast Highway.

Oliveri noticed his oversized parody of the presidential hopeful’s “Make America Great Again” hat — which instead reads “Make Your Hair Great Again” — was missing from the 6-foot-tall statue of a mannequin head when he opened the salon Tuesday morning.

The hat had been smashed in by vandals a few months ago.

Oliveri reviewed surveillance video, which clearly shows three men jostling the hat off of the statue and driving away with it on the roof of a four-door black sedan.

Redondo Beach police Officer John Anderson said the first suspect is described as having short hair, a mustache and a beard, and was wearing a blue flannel shirt and jeans. The second is described as a Latino wearing a light-colored. striped hoodie and jeans. The final suspect, who briefly tried to hide his face from the camera, is described as a heavy-set Latino with facial hair wearing a white L.A. Dodgers jersey with the number 32 and jeans.

The men are wanted for grand theft.

Oliveri said the hat, which he first put up months ago, has been popular in the community, generating lots of chuckles and people pulling over to snap photos. Conservative pundit Ann Coulter even tweeted a picture of it.

“I’m not a Trump advocate necessarily, but what I’ve done here is simply jump on the Trump locomotive,” said Oliveri, who has owned the salon on PCH and Avenue F for 55 years. “People love it. It’s meant to be a fun thing.”

The cap was just one of many looks he has given the statue he designed 45 years ago, which sits prominently in a planter filled with flowers. He has given it a giant set of earmuffs on chilly nights and a Santa hat during the holidays.

When the salon was undergoing a remodel two years ago, Oliveri put a large bandana and rollers in the head’s tresses — made of ivy — with a sign telling customers the business was getting a makeover.

He is quick to note that he designed the Chia Pet-looking statue long before the advent of the plant fad.

Though the police report values the hat at $2,000, Oliveri believes it is worth more like $5,000.

He spent weeks building it from steel and red sail fabric and had to remake it when it was vandalized, though that incident was not captured on video.

“Whoever’s got it, I don’t know what they intend to do with it, unless the guy’s got such a big head he thinks he can wear it,” Oliveri said.

Customers are “furious” about the theft, he said.

Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Redondo Beach police at 310-379-2477.

Megan Barnes joined the Daily Breeze staff in 2014 on the Palos Verdes Peninsula beat and now covers Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach and El Segundo. Before that, she was a freelancer covering LGBT news and her beloved hometown of San Pedro, where she probably made your latte at Starbucks. She loves iced Americanos and Radiohead and finally got to see them live on the “A Moon Shaped Pool” tour. It was magical.

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